Venus is the disk on top. There were lot more sunspots at that time. The image was taken with an Olympus pocket camera, the same way as for the Mercury transit below.
Here is a quick and dirty image taken with iPhone 5S. Mercury is the little dot at one o'clock position.
(iPhone lens was held in front of the eye piece of a refractive telescope with objective covered with a solar filter. Celestron NexStar 80mm, 10mm eye piece; taken at 5.31 pm, location 28.4250, 77.0397) |
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